John 15:18

Εἰ ὁ κόσμος … μεμίσηκεν, “If the world hates you,” as it does (indicative); “the world” is contrasted with “one another” of John 15:17, with the disciples who were to love. γινώσκετε, “ye know,” or, if it be taken as an imperative, “know ye,” that it has hated me, πρῶτον ὑμῶν, “before you,” and, as in John 1:15 where also the superlative is found, not only “before” in point of time, but as the norm or prototype.